http://www.lukehadley.com DVLH Luke Hadley Scott Hall The New World Order (commonly known as nWo, the official typeset in the logo) was a professional wrestling stable that originally wrestled for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The group later appeared in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) after the purchase of WCW by WWF.

The stable's gimmick was a group of wrestlers aiming to "take over" and control WCW. They would first emerge in mid-1996. Throughout the late-1990s, there were several incarnations of the nWo. The nWo was influential in the success of WCW (and ironically, the downfall of it).In 1996, both Scott Hall and Kevin Nash left the WWF to sign with WCW. Hall first appeared on WCW TV live on the Memorial Day 1996 edition of Monday Nitro by interrupting a match by walking down through the crowd into the ring. He then delivered his "You Want A War?" speech, stating that he had a challenge for Eric Bischoff and any WCW superstar. As Nitro neared its end, Hall accompanied Bischoff in the broadcast booth and demand that he tell Ted Turner to pick three of his best wrestlers. The next week, Hall reappeared on Nitro five minutes before the end of the broadcast and again interrogated Bishoff. The following week on Nitro, Sting confronted and slapped Hall after Hall spit a toothpick at him and said he had a "little...no...BIG surprise" for Sting. Kevin Nash was then revealed as Hall's surprise, and the two were dubbed The Outsiders. At Bash at the Beach, Hall and Nash appeared by themselves, without their third partner for a match scheduled originally to be Hall, Nash, and their partner against Lex Luger, Sting, and Randy Savage. Gene Okerlund asked for their partner, but with no answer as to the identity of the mystery partner, the match began. Shortly into the match, Luger was injured, requiring medical attention shortly after Sting hit Nash with a Stinger Splash in the corner while Nash was holding Luger, crushing him in the attack. Paramedics treated Luger after taking him away to the back. Sting and Savage were left to fight The Outsiders. Hulk Hogan later appeared as The Outsider's mystery partner after he attacked Savage.[2] Hogan revealed that his turn occurred because he was tired of fans that had turned on him. Hogan called the new faction "new world order of professional wrestling," beginning a feud between wrestlers loyal to WCW and the nWo.Soon after the nWo formed, the stable began appearing on Monday Nitro, causing mayhem and attacking WCW wrestlers. After Hulk Hogan won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from The Giant, Hall and Nash sprayed the letters "nWo" on to the title and began to refer it on occasion as the "nWo World Heavyweight Championship. The spraying of the belt was the first step of what they referred to as "taking over" WCW.

As WCW's annual pay-per-view Fall Brawl was drawing closer, WCW was preparing their team to fight at War Games against the nWo. The nWo tricked fans into thinking that Sting was gaining entry into the nWo. At War Games, the nWo won the match controversially as two Stings fought in the match: "nWo" Sting and "Real" Sting. The real Sting was revealed as an aid to WCW, and as fans believed that the real Sting had joined the nWo, he declared that he would not help WCW in the war against the nWo.[3]

Soon after the nWo won at Fall Brawl:War Games, they began establishing new members into the stable, including Ted DiBiase (who was "financing" the group, a counter-part to his "Million Dollar Man" gimmick in the WWF), Vincent (as "head of security"), Syxx,[4] and The Giant. Referee Nick Patrick became the group's official referee after he showed favoritism to nWo members during their matches. The nWo continued to dominate WCW, winning many matches including Hulk Hogan successfully retaining his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Scott Hall and Kevin Nash winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship from Harlem Heat.

As WCW only recognized Hogan, Nash, and Hall as WCW employees due to them holding WCW titles, the other nWo members were unrecognized as WCW employees. Because of this, they were unable to wrestle other WCW wrestlers which led to the nWo starting a segment on WCW Saturday Night, called nWo Saturday Night, where nWo stable members wrestled jobbers in an empty arena. On November 24, 1996, The Giant won a 60-man battle royal at World War 3, earning a title match against Hogan. On December 29 at Starrcade, Roddy Piper defeated Hulk Hogan in a non-title match. The next night on Nitro, The Giant was kicked out of the nWo when he refused to chokeslam Roddy Piper in an nWo assault.